Foster is #10 in the nation for accounting research, #2 for financial accounting research in latest BYU Accounting Rankings

The Foster School’s Department of Accounting in 2022.

The annual BYU Accounting Rankings list the University of Washington Foster School of Business at #10 in the United States (#12 in the world) for accounting research published in the discipline’s top 12 journals over the past six years (2017-2022). Foster ranks #16 for accounting research productivity since 1990.

Stephanie Grant

Foster’s Department of Accounting faculty also registers at #2 in the nation (#3 in the world) for research contributions to the field of financial accounting over the past six years.

BYU’s comprehensive database ranks accounting departments overall and by topical area based on the number of articles their faculty have published in the most influential journals over periods of 6, 12 and 33 years (since the ranking began in 1990). Topical areas include accounting information systems, audit, managerial accounting, tax accounting and financial accounting. Financial accounting is the area of study pursued by the largest number of accounting researchers.

The BYU index considers more than 2,700 business schools around the world.

Individual excellence

The Accounting Rankings also track the contributions of individual researchers over three different time periods and in five different topical areas.

Phil Quinn

In overall accounting research contributions, five current Foster School faculty members stand among the world’s 300 most productive researchers over the past six years:

Ed deHaan (#118)
Stephanie Grant (#118)
Elizabeth Blankespoor (#178)
Phillip Quinn (#178)
Frank Hodge (#276)

Sarah McVay

Another seven current Foster School faculty are among the top 350 accounting researchers of the past 30 years:

Sarah McVay (#93)
Frank Hodge (#119)
Dawn Matsumoto (#183)
Charles M.C. Lee (#183)
Weili Ge (#238)
Dave Burgstahler (#334)
Ed deHaan (#334)

Darren Bernard

Stars of financial accounting

Seven Foster School faculty members rank among the world’s 200 most productive researchers in the area of financial accounting over the past six years:

Ed deHaan (#30)
Stephanie Grant (#30)
Elizabeth Blankespoor (#46)
Frank Hodge (#81)
Phillip Quinn (#81)
Darren Bernard (#153)
Charles M.C. Lee (#153)

Elizabeth Blankespoor

Nine Foster faculty members are listed among the top 200 financial accounting researchers over the past 12 years:

Ed deHaan (#41)
Sarah McVay (#50)
Frank Hodge (#67)
Elizabeth Blankespoor (#67)
Weili Ge (#92)
Dawn Matsumoto (#92)
Asher Curtis (#178)
Stephanie Grant (#178)

Charles C.M. Lee

And eight Foster faculty members are among the top 200 financial accounting researchers since 1990:

Sarah McVay (#44)
Frank Hodge (#54)
Dawn Matsumoto (#65)
Charles M.C. Lee (#65)
Weili Ge (#115)
Ed deHaan (#136)
Dave Burgstahler (#195)
Elizabeth Blankespoor (#194)

Dawn Matsumoto

Multiplier effect

Beyond the direct research impact of current Foster accounting faculty, the Department of Accounting also has educated a significant number of doctoral students who have become major producers of influential scholarship as they have dispersed to major universities around the world.

Foster is ranked #6 in the world for the three-year (and six-year) research record of its accounting PhD graduates dating back to 1990, and #5 for the three-year research output of alumni who have graduated in the past nine years.

Ed deHaan, an associate professor of accounting, is a 2013 graduate of the Foster School’s PhD Program.

For the collective six-year output of its PhD Program alumni since 1990 across individual topic areas, Foster ranks #3 in financial accounting research, #6 in tax accounting research, #10 in managerial accounting research, #34 in accounting information systems research, #38 in audit research.

Tallying the six-year publishing record of its more recent PhD grads (since 2013), Foster ranks #2 in financial accounting research, #13 in tax accounting research, #15 in managerial accounting research, #19 in accounting information systems research and #34 in audit accounting research.

The BYU index considers research in 12 journals. Six of them—The Accounting Review; Accounting, Organizations, and SocietyContemporary Accounting ResearchJournal of Accounting & EconomicsJournal of Accounting Research; and Review of Accounting Studies—are considered the most-influential peer-reviewed journals in the discipline of accounting. The other five—Auditing: A Journal of Practice & TheoryBehavioral Research in AccountingJournal of Information SystemsJournal of Management Accounting ResearchAccounting Horizons; and Journal of the American Taxation Association—are deemed the highest-rated accounting journals for non-financial topical areas. Accounting Horizons was added to the list for rankings from 2015 forward.

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